We launched a website which uses the Facebook open graph and like buttons to share content on Facebook etc. One of the open graph tags includes information about the Facebook IDs of the website owners (<meta property="fb:admins" content="..."/>), so these were included. I am one of the admins, and when I liked the web page myself Facebook automatically created a fan page. This is OK, and we are going to keep the fan page, but I can't seem to edit it.
Is there any way to edit a Facebook page which was automatically created?
I managed to solve this by creating a new Facebook page then merging the old, uneditable page (which was automatically created in the first place) with the new page. From the new page I created I went to:
Edit page > Update info > Resources > Request to merge duplicate pages.
Select the old page and merge it to the new one. All the updates and pictures from the old page were lost (this wasn't really a problem) but the likes were merged into the new page. It also asked which username (which forms the Facebook.com URL) I would like to use for the new combined page, so I selected the username of the old page as this is what everyone was used to. At the end of this process I have a Facebook page, with the same likes and same URL as before which I can now edit.
I hope this helps.
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when I added the open-graph meta data to my website, every Like that my webpage gets is saved only for the webpage under a "ghost page". means that if i want to create a "facebook page" for the website, it's totally separated from the website, and i need to re-build my audience again.
is there a way to merge between them?
For example, if I insert a Like-Box to my website, and I click on the Facebook link in the Like-Box - it redirects me to the website, and not let me see the Facebook page.
if I'll change the link to the Facebook page, the likes number will be much lower.
I know i can merge under "Resources" but i wonder if it will transform my "Facebook page" to another link to my website. which i dont want.
So, how can I let people click on the link: "MySite on Facebook" and get to my site on facebook and not to my site...
I think that the ultimate solution will we set the like button to the "facebook page", and not to the page itself. what do you think?
You will have to create a Fan Page for you website and move the Likes over. There is a page migration / merge tool you can use, but it only works if the pages have similar names. You can find it in the Page Admin screen.
I have a Facebook-ghost-page.
which means - a page in facebook where nobody can see, but me, that was created automatically after clicking 'Like' on a open-graph meta-tag page. used only for tracking my likers.
The thing is - When the users will go to the address of this ghost-page - they will be redirected to the website.
But, I want it to be as a Facebook page, where people can read about the website on Facebook.
So I opened another Facebook page.
But now I have likes on the "website" and likes on the "page".
sounds not good to me.
my question is: I want to merge the two. into 1 page. currently the ghost-page has the more likes. If i will click on "Merge" under "Resources" in the ghost-page. what will happen? Will it delete my Facebook page and Every time someone will try to get to this Facebook page it will redirect him to the website instead?
The Merge tool will delete one of the pages and move the fans on to the other page. It will mean you can move fans from one page to another. All the posts from the delete page will be lost however.
Can you change the address of the "ghost-page" to a URL you control on the site, and then have that URL simply redirect users to the http://facebook.com/whatever address you want them to end up at?
Since around June 19th the pages I 'Like' in my site (which generate all the metadata automatically) are no longer creating the respective Facebook Page where one could 'Build Traffic' to the page, monitor likes, comments, etc. The previous pages do have the reference, but pages created and liked from then on are not!
Also, the pages are not showing on the Pages I Like section of www.facebook.com/pages . If I go there and change to the pages I have liked I see only the pages up until that day, and newer pages on other sites, but no longer the pages I liked on my own site! The weird thing is that if I navigate to the page itself, I can see myself as a 'liker' of the page.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page inside my Web Page : http://rafaelpolit.com/inicio/index.php?sid=14&gim=240&ln=2
2. Like the Web Page
3. Go to your www.facebook.com/pages and navigate to Pages I like
4. The page does not show there.
Try accessing it via this link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/OGTitle/OGObjectID
I'm experiencing some issues with my website, regarding to Facebook page's behaviour. I added the opengraphs tags (including an "fb:admins" with my own ID) and now, everytime I click on a Like button on my domain, a new Page is created inside Facebook (i.e. on the http://facebook.com/pages/manage).
Why is this happening? And even more important: how can I make it stop?! I manually created the Page on Facebook for my business, and I don't want any other Page on FB to be created!
Thanks in advance!
That's how the Like button works ; it creates a virtual 'admin' page for each liked URL which is of the appropriate type which allows you to post updates into the news feed of the users who have liked that URL - it also enables access to the insights for the Like button
If you don't want them appearing in the list of adminned pages on your account for some reason, the easiest thing to do is to create an App, and use the App ID as the admin of the pages instead of using your user ID.
Is it possible to convert a ghost page (created automatically by open-graph tags) to a normal page? Or at least maybe transfer Likes?
I have created an username for it so now is "accessible" by going to facebook/pagename but still doesn't work as it should.
There is also an App for that page and haven't find yet an ideea how to attach it ("Go to app" button).
I managed to solve this problem for our automatically created page by creating a new 'proper' page, then merging the previous 'ghost' page with the new page. The merging process transfered the likes to the new page, but didn't transfer content (status updated etc.).
More information here: Facebook automatically created a fan page which I can't edit
I hope this helps.